iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach

Description

The professional programmer’s DEITEL® guide to iPhone app development using iPhone SDK 3.x, Xcode®, Objective-C® and Cocoa®

More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great iPhone apps quickly and—once you’ve joined Apple’s fee-based iPhone Developer Program—to get them up and running on the App Store. The book uses an app-driven approach—each new technology is discussed in the context of 14 fully tested iPhone apps (7700 lines of code), complete with syntax shading, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:

Welcome

Spot-On Game

Route Tracker

Tip Calculator

Cannon Game

Slideshow

Favorite Twitter® Searches

Painter

Voice Recorder

Flag Quiz Game

Address Book

Twitter® Discount Airfares

By Chapter 3 you’ll be building apps using Xcode®, Cocoa® and Interface Builder. You’ll learn object-oriented programming in Objective-C® and build apps using the latest iPhone 3.x technologies including the Game Kit, iPod library access and more.